Nigeria – Su'eddie in Life n' Literature

2023/28/102023/28/10

EVOKING UBUNTU AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS: AN EVENING OF AFRICAN HERITAGE WITH SU’EDDIE AGEMA, MCINERNEY, MWAMBULUKUTU, CHRIS AGAPE, JOSHUA OMEKE, VICTORY OSARUMWENSE AND ORAYYY

by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema

In showing the art side of its curriculum while celebrating Africa and Black History Month, the London School of Economics hosted its second Ubuntu Café (a.k.a Ubuntu 2.0) at the GenDen on 12^th October 2023 from 5:30 to 9:00pm. Hosted by the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa (FLIA) and Programme for African Leadership (PfAL), the event was themed ‘Roots, Bridges, and Echoes: Reclaiming our Stories.’

Established in 2022, the Ubuntu Café aims to foster connections amongst African students at LSE and those with an affinity for African culture. Beyond a mere gathering, the café provides an avenue for intellectual stimulation, creativity, and lively discussions through several ways including competitions, talks, debates, poetry, music, and art.

Ubuntu 2.0 featured a book launch/conversation and performances from artists including Will McInerney, Victory Osarumwense, Chris Agape, Joshua Omeke, Su’eddie Vershima Agema, and Elizabeth Mwambulukutu, anchored by the dynamic creative, Orayyy. Kicking off at 5:30 pm at the LSE GenDen, the event was orchestrated by the FLIA team, comprising of Tosin Adebisi, Ivonne Olusoga, and Daniella Gutiérrez-Torres, ensuring attendees had a memorable experience.

2023/20/08

DEVELOPMENT AS DIGNITY: Reflections by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema

One of the hallmarks of my 2019 was co-founding the African Writers [Society] at the University of Sussex with my colleagues, Dr Jennifer J. Agbaire, Sarah Egbo and Michelle Okpo Eruemulor. As founding president, I worked with my cofounders to organise several events independently and in collaboration with other societies and organisations. One of our … Continue reading DEVELOPMENT AS DIGNITY: Reflections by S. Su’eddie Vershima Agema

2017/16/09

BIAFRA AND THE REST OF US by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

There is an eagerness for everyone to say something about Biafra, to blame somebody for the chaos that is about to unfold if care is not taken. This is not the time to say that IPOB had it coming. The issue here is that human lives are being wasted. First, the killing of Biafran agitators … Continue reading BIAFRA AND THE REST OF US by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim

2016/29/12

Pity The Nation – Kahlil Gibran

Pity the nation that is full of beliefs and empty of religion. Pity the nation that acclaims the bully as hero, and that deems the glittering conqueror bountiful. Pity a nation that despises a passion in its dream, yet submits in its awakening. Pity the nation that raises not its voice save when it walks … Continue reading Pity The Nation – Kahlil Gibran

2016/12/082016/12/08

SINGING AGAINST THIS SONG OF WRONG by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

I never knew how much I love Nigeria, my country. More and more, I feel it in my soul. The beauty of the several people that come together to form this great entity. I know how much we have lost because I have lived my fair share of three decades in this great place, seeing … Continue reading SINGING AGAINST THIS SONG OF WRONG by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

2015/01/10

THE FIRST OF MANY LOVE NOTES (A POEM) by Sefa Renee Charles-Ayede

You’ve raised countless armies and helped mould empires out of individuals You’ve fed everyone whom you backed, like the Queens you’ve raised have done with princes You’ve fed not alone those who are biologically yours You don’t see the difference between man and beast As long as they are a part of nature’s limited yet … Continue reading THE FIRST OF MANY LOVE NOTES (A POEM) by Sefa Renee Charles-Ayede

2013/24/11

LOST (In Mad Blues)

(For those who love without ceasing individually and an ailing nation) He sighs… The dizzying crisscross of her steps no longer stir his passion much like her physical fashion her flowing hair long gone wild glistens no more. He is beguiled and cheated as he sees her in reality a lady of sorts different from … Continue reading LOST (In Mad Blues)

2013/02/05

CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

There’s little that can be said about Chinua Achebe that has not been said. Little to know about him that even the most ignorant of us has not caught in the last one month and so days. From the greatest of orators and the very best of writers to unheard names, common people and … Continue reading CHINUA ACHEBE: Something of thoughts (A Tribute) by Su’eddie Vershima Agema

2013/24/03

Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

Chinua Achebe is one of those epically unique individuals whose lives have been so full, so purposive and so impactful that we begin to pray that they will never die. But who doesn’t know that that is mere wishful thinking? To be sure, the Eagle on Iroko didn’t die young, but he left when … Continue reading Chinua Achebe: Death, Where Are Thy Claws? – Niyi Osundare

2013/23/03

STUBBORN SOUL (A POEM) by Kator Hule

(for Chinua Achebe) You Stubborn Soul Saturate with thoughts they hated You who littered stubborn words in our hard hearts Words too stubborn to die Too stubborn to be forgotten You literary glitterati Die! The grief that strides Like a bullet through Biafra forests during the war, you pierced Too stubborn, you refused to die … Continue reading STUBBORN SOUL (A POEM) by Kator Hule

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